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Michael Seibel - Building Product

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Michael Seibel explains how startups should approach building a product, defining their MVP, and finding their first customers.

YC CEO Michael Seibel outlines how successful startups think about building something people want. Startup School is YC's free online program for founders. Sign up to access the full curriculum and over $100k in deals! startupschool.org/ Chapters (Powered by bit.ly/chapterme-yc) - Introduction What allowed us to survive? What problem are you solving? Who is your customer? Does your MVP actually solve the problem? Which customers should you go after first? (the easy ones!) Should you discount or start with a super low price? (no!) How to setup metrics Product Development Cycle (v1) Pivot vs Iterate Fake vs Real Steve Jobs Summary Q&A

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What people say. Recommended as a classic guide on how to iterate on product and avoid the trap of perpetual development.

jaxron Hacker News • Recommends

On “Ask HN: How to raise a seed round in a down market?”

I don't think you hit product market fit, though. It should be pretty obvious. If you had, and the market was as big as you say, then people would be flocking in just by word of mouth. I would suggest to iterate on product, talk to your users, get some good metrics on usage, etc. There's great content about that at the YC YouTube channel. link to this video link link
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bolt7469on Hacker News • Recommends

On “Becoming a Full-Time Creator as a Software Engineer”

The classic YC advice is "make something people want." This video dives into how that looks in practice: link to this video The guiding principle is simple, but in practice it can be hard and complex.
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benanthoney24on Hacker News • Recommends

Watched this lecture by Michael Seibel to YC in 2018 and thought it was useful. link to this video Thought it could be helpful to keep other founders accountable to build their mvp quickly and get it in front of customers.
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sn0w_crashon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Why do most YC startups go nowhere?”

Yes but YC cannot force a team to “launch” Many teams will stay in a perpetual loop of product development because they feel it’s not ready. YC has no control over this and are outspoken about this death spiral. In one video Siebel reminisces about how many startups will reach out for help when they’re 30 days from running out of cash, instead of 6 months or a year earlier. At this point with no traction it’s too late to course correct. link to this video
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cloogshiceron Hacker News • Mentions

On “Ask HN: Easiest and cheapest full-stack frameworks that you love?”

You're welcome! I just realized I linked the wrong video, here's the correct one (also Michael Seibel), where he talks about art: link to this video
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rrr_oh_manon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' Manual Examples”

To be frank, I’ve never used Instacart, so anything would be (a hopefully educated) guess. But it might be some version of Michael Seibels's classic "Who is your customer?" ( link to this video )
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